Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages

[Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>]

Doug Evans wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Gary Benson wrote:
> > > Doug Evans wrote:
> > > > If I do a git blame of server.c I see patch 860789c7 with a
> > > > date of 2014-08-08.  That's three weeks before it was pushed
> > > > upstream.  Bleah.  I'd really like to be able to do a git
> > > > blame and have what I see be useful, including the date.  The
> > > > author date is basically useless to me.
> > >
> > > I see some options to git-rebase, --committer-date-is-author-date
> > > and --ignore-date.  I'll experiment with these the next time I
> > > rebase something and see what happens.
> >
> > Running "git rebase --ignore-date gdb/master" immediately prior to
> > pushing sets both author and commit dates to the present time on
> > all commits you are about to push.
> 
> Cool.  Can you add that to the contribution checklist?

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Fixing_commit_dates

If we add a server-side hook to check that the ChangeLog messages in
the commit messages are correct we could also use that hook to check
that the dates in commits match the dates in the ChangeLog files.

Cheers,
Gary

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